NEWPORT BEACH (AP) — More than a dozen dilapidated cottages at an oceanfront Southern California park will be renovated and available for overnight rentals under a plan approved by the state Coastal ...

The park is also home to a 12.3-acre historic district that comprises 46 cottages that were built about 100 years ago. “The cottages themselves were built in the ’20s and ’30s by squatters,” said ...

“That one was Bob Lawson’s, they called it the Buttertub, and these two belonged to the Shirleys,” Laura Davick says, pointing to a string of run-down cottages at Crystal Cove State Beach. These ...

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